Williams (NYSE: WMB) announced today that Alan Armstrong, president and chief executive officer, is scheduled to present at the Scotia Howard Weil 2018 Energy Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Tuesday, March 27,...

The most recent short interest data was recently released for the 01/31/2018 settlement date, and Williams Cos Inc is the #198 most shorted of the S&P 500 components, based on 3.45 "days to cover." There are a number of ways to look at short data, but one metric that we find particularly useful is the "days to cover" because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares typically traded. The number of shares short is then divided by the average daily volume, to express the total number of trading days it would take to close out all of the open short positions if every share traded represented a short position being closed.